It's Thursday (obvs) and usually I'd do a recipe blog on Thursday but I'm cold and had to shovel the snow when I got home from work. I know, at first glance it may seem like I have a loser unemployed husband who won't even shovel the snow. But in actuality I have a loser (kidding) unemployed husband who has a leg that is hurting and the memory of a not-quite-a-year-old back surgery. So I'm cold and hungry and excited about some things and bummed about others. Therefore, enjoy this post I wrote yesterday. I hope you can agree and disagree along with me.
Tuesday someone wrote over on Wise Bread an article called, "How to Really Save Money When You Shop." You don't have to read it, because I did and here's what the author says: You're not really saving money if you're buying something on sale. You can only save money if what you're buying either: A) lets you avoid consuming something or B) lets you produce something. He also mentions buying things you would rent repeatedly and investing.
I agree and disagree and here's why:
Agree: Avoiding Consuming. Last month we purchased two doo-hickies (technical term) that you put in your water faucet that aerate the water and lets less come through. These two doo-hickies cost about $6. So far as we can tell, we've already saved $20 in water in one month. So they've more than paid for themselves twice. The verdict is still out on some of our other purchases: LED lights (Christmas and regular bulbs), insulated curtains. And there are yet other things that may/will never pay for themselves in terms of savings by consuming less energy: new doors, windows, hot water heater.
Disagree: One of the things he mentions in category B is knitting needles--which is interesting because I just finished my first knitting project: a scarf. I don't remember how much I paid for my needles or yarn (well, actually I think they were a gift--so nothing, but for argument sake...) but I guarantee you that I could buy a scarf for what my time, the needles and the yarn cost. Factor out my time and I would still bet that I could buy a scarf on clearance (with gloves) for less than the yarn and needles. If I keep knitting and get good at it, then yes, I could save money with my knitting needles, but I'd still have to buy different sizes of needles and yarn isn't cheap. It would still be possible (likely?) that any project I make could end up costing more than a similar item bought on sale or at a thrift shop or garage sale. The same is true for sewing--clothes are often cheaper to purchase (new) than patterns, material and notions--not to mention the cost of a good machine and the other tools you need. Again, same with the stuff you need to can produce from your garden. This stuff is only cheaper if you are persistent enough to get good at it and use these tools over and over.
Disagree: Obviously, I'm a big believer that buying something on sale (or with coupons) will save you money if these are things you would buy anyway and use. I've often fallen into a trap of buying something like a bag of apples only to not eat them and have to throw half the bag--and half the money I used to buy the bag--away. But if you're smart and don't get caught up in the marketing aspect of sales, deals and coupons, then yes, buying things you need on sale is absolutely saving money.
So here is what I ate today. And guess what? I saved money by not eating out.
Breakfast: Peanut butter on toast 17 cents. That snow-day bread was a good deal.
Lunch: Free delicious beef stroganoff. Yeah, I get by with a little help from my friends.
Snack: Orange and free applesauce. 17 cents. I have ways of getting free applesauce.
Dinner: I feel like it should cost 17 cents. Instead I'll continue the free theme with sweet potatoes. Sweet potato fries with Greek Yogurt (Here's looking at you, Amb.) and a Grilled Cheese because I'm 5. 70 cents
Total: $1.04
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I've Got Some Catching Up to Do
My folks were in town over the long holiday weekend. Whenever they come, I usually suffer from a food hangover. On Monday night, after they had left, I seriously thought about doing a week or two of detox (not GOOP style, actual food is involved. You don't subsist on $1000 mixtures of coconut water from Bali, pure mountain spring water gathered by Tibetan monks, organic fair-trade grape seed extract, and the blood of 10 virgins). Then I remembered chocolate and bourbon and came back to my senses. Anyway, I ate too much, didn't write enough and didn't exercise enough. On the plus side, the freezer/pantry project aced the family dinner. I only had to buy asparagus and ravioli--and that's only because those are the only things Step-daughter is interested in eating.
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Sweet Jebus, running on the treadmill is not the devil! My very most awesome friend Office Space, Christmas gifted (I hate it when people say gifted. Why is "gave" not good enough anymore?) me a few weeks at her work gym. I meant to be all tough and winter-brave, but then it snowed and I wienied out. Playing chicken with the oncoming traffic and bailing into a dirty pile of frozen slush at the last possible minute may get your heart rate going, but it's not my idea of a fun workout.
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I finished knitting my scarf and I got my very own harmonica and how-to-play-harmonica book from Brother as an early birthday present. I'm pretty good!--but not really. However, if we have to move into a boxcar and warm ourselves by building fires in trash cans, I'm ready to provide our soundtrack!
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My car died at the stoplight on my way to work yesterday. Surprisingly, no one honked. Husband and Police Officer gave it a little push 'round the corner. Can I count steering and braking with no power steering or power brakes as a workout? Long story short--a $64 tow and sitting in an attached garage for 10 hours and it starts. No diagnosis has been made because Husband and Father-In-Law disagree and, come on, there is a good possibility that neither of them is right anyway.
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It's snowing today so I came home early. I had to stop by the grocery store for bread and milk but then I didn't want to look like one of these assholes who runs to the grocery store for bread and milk every time it snows so I bought some other stuff we didn't need but it was on sale and we will use it. So that was pretty much of a fail for the freezer/pantry project. And? I'm still an asshole for going to the store for bread and milk. And? If you're one of those people who goes to the store for bread and milk when it snows, you're not an asshole. But if you're one of those people who wanders around and blocks the whole aisle while people are just trying get their bread and milk, you are an asshole.
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Oh, did I fess up yet to buying that peanut butter for less than $1/jar? Because I totally did it. The sale was supposed to be over when I went to the grocery store for milk and other perishables but it was still on. I can't be held responsible for my actions. We have five full jars of peanut butter in our pantry now. I guess I'll just be eating a lot of peanut butter from now until it's gone. Now accepting your peanut butter recipes.
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Husband just went to the grocery store to get apple cider and came home with two cases of bottled water (There are only three situations that individual-sized bottles of water are acceptable in my book: 1. If you're in Mexico fighting drug lords. 2. If you're wandering along the desert and come across a vending machine of water bottles. 3. Never.), a four pack of root beer, a frozen pizza, a 12 pack of Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper, and apple cider. Ok, so: A. Not so cheap honey and B. But, that's ok because VINDICATION! And to think I felt bad about buying stuff to make chili.
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Today I'm chowing down on:
Breakfast: 2 waffles (one was free, my parents brought box of waffles when they came over for breakfast on Monday), banana, peanut butter 41 cents
Lunch: Orange Pork Chop and stuffing $1.37
Snack: Chocolate that was a Christmas gift
Later snack: Granola bar 26 cents
Dinner: Hamburger Helper and Orange 58 cents
Total: $2.62
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Sweet Jebus, running on the treadmill is not the devil! My very most awesome friend Office Space, Christmas gifted (I hate it when people say gifted. Why is "gave" not good enough anymore?) me a few weeks at her work gym. I meant to be all tough and winter-brave, but then it snowed and I wienied out. Playing chicken with the oncoming traffic and bailing into a dirty pile of frozen slush at the last possible minute may get your heart rate going, but it's not my idea of a fun workout.
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I finished knitting my scarf and I got my very own harmonica and how-to-play-harmonica book from Brother as an early birthday present. I'm pretty good!--but not really. However, if we have to move into a boxcar and warm ourselves by building fires in trash cans, I'm ready to provide our soundtrack!
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My car died at the stoplight on my way to work yesterday. Surprisingly, no one honked. Husband and Police Officer gave it a little push 'round the corner. Can I count steering and braking with no power steering or power brakes as a workout? Long story short--a $64 tow and sitting in an attached garage for 10 hours and it starts. No diagnosis has been made because Husband and Father-In-Law disagree and, come on, there is a good possibility that neither of them is right anyway.
______________________
It's snowing today so I came home early. I had to stop by the grocery store for bread and milk but then I didn't want to look like one of these assholes who runs to the grocery store for bread and milk every time it snows so I bought some other stuff we didn't need but it was on sale and we will use it. So that was pretty much of a fail for the freezer/pantry project. And? I'm still an asshole for going to the store for bread and milk. And? If you're one of those people who goes to the store for bread and milk when it snows, you're not an asshole. But if you're one of those people who wanders around and blocks the whole aisle while people are just trying get their bread and milk, you are an asshole.
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Oh, did I fess up yet to buying that peanut butter for less than $1/jar? Because I totally did it. The sale was supposed to be over when I went to the grocery store for milk and other perishables but it was still on. I can't be held responsible for my actions. We have five full jars of peanut butter in our pantry now. I guess I'll just be eating a lot of peanut butter from now until it's gone. Now accepting your peanut butter recipes.
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Husband just went to the grocery store to get apple cider and came home with two cases of bottled water (There are only three situations that individual-sized bottles of water are acceptable in my book: 1. If you're in Mexico fighting drug lords. 2. If you're wandering along the desert and come across a vending machine of water bottles. 3. Never.), a four pack of root beer, a frozen pizza, a 12 pack of Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper, and apple cider. Ok, so: A. Not so cheap honey and B. But, that's ok because VINDICATION! And to think I felt bad about buying stuff to make chili.
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Today I'm chowing down on:
Breakfast: 2 waffles (one was free, my parents brought box of waffles when they came over for breakfast on Monday), banana, peanut butter 41 cents
Lunch: Orange Pork Chop and stuffing $1.37
Snack: Chocolate that was a Christmas gift
Later snack: Granola bar 26 cents
Dinner: Hamburger Helper and Orange 58 cents
Total: $2.62
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Elastic Recipe: The Crap Food Edition
Gourmet food, this is not. It's not even good food. If you want that today, go check out my friend Lauren's new blog. Rest assured, she's always cooking something good and healthy. Not me...
This evening, during my commute, I really started thinking about phoning in dinner. I mean really phoning it in. Well, not really--I'm not much for picking up the phone and ordering pizza or Chinese. That takes too much thought. No, I'm talking about hitting the drive-thru. I wanted bad food and I wanted it stat. No one would even be home to catch my binge as Husband is watching a movie for the second time just so his brother would go see it in the theater. I was debating over whose fries and burgers I wanted most and if there'd be room left over for a shake. I even opened my wallet at a stop light and thumbed through my available cash.
But in the end I steered my car towards home and cooked crap food. Just call this my week of box food. Tuesday was Stove Top and today is Hamburger Helper.What? It was on sale and I had a coupon.
If you're making Hamburger Helper (God forbid) and you're only following the directions on the box, you're missing out on a world on wonderful. You can't just eat it as is unless you're four. I mean, I've had four-year-olds tell me that Chef Boyardee is "Damn Good Stuff." I was babysitting at the time and probably should have reprimanded him but it was all I could do to get out of the room before laughing. What? He wasn't my kid. Point being: you can't trust a four-year-old's taste buds and if you're going to eat Hamburger Helper (or any of the Helper family) at least pretend to zazz it up. Also you don't want that white glove guy telling you what to do.
In the end, I'm pretty happy with the decision to skip the drive-thru. My craving for junk is satisfied and the cooking part was much more relaxing than driving to the drive-thru and waiting in line for the privilege to pay for "food." Also? This counts as part of the pantry/freezer project because I had everything on hand already.
This isn't so much a recipe as My Guide to Zazzy Helper.
Step 1:(I accidentally published right there. First time ever.) Get Helper. Wait until a sale/coupon combo. There is plenty of other cheaper crap you can buy in the meantime. What about the private label kinds? I don't know, but it can't get much worse, right?
Step 2: Cook your meat...or don't. This is the first and second-best place to take liberties with Mr. White Glove. You don't need a pound of meat, you don't have to use the meat they tell you to. Last time I used a mixture of cooked chicken and turkey for a chicken one. This time I used 1/4 pound hamburger and 4 or 5 slices of bacon. You can also use a mixture of ground meet and bulgur or other cooked grain. Or beans or tofu. Or veg you want to sautee like onions or peppers or mushrooms. Or skip this step all together.
Step 3: Mix in the noodles or rice and liquid and powder stuff. This is when I also make extra rice or noodles to stir in at the end. There is usually plenty of sauce/flavoring to support extra noodles or rice.
Step 4: Add in some more vegetables. Zazz it up! Priority number one for liberty taking. Sneak those vegetables past Mr. White Glove! Add anything you want sauteed with the meat (as I mentioned before). Add anything frozen or that you need boiled while you're cooking the noodles/rice. Add canned stuff or greens after the cooking is over.
Step 5: Eat it up!
Costs
Hamburger Helper was 75 cents.
Quarter pound of hamburger was 50 cents
Bacon was 60 cents
Onion was 20 cents
Milk was 48 cents
Broccoli was 33 cents
Tomatoes were 50 cents
Extra pasta was free (coupon)
Total $3.36. Way less than an extra value meal. With all the additions this could easily make 8 servings so 42 cents per serving.
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Breakfast: Peanut Butter on Toast 27 cents
Snack: Granola Bar 25 cents
Lunch: Orange Glazed Pork Chops $1.37
Snack: Yogurt with Blueberries and Banana 83 cents
Dinner: Zazz-burger Helper 42 cents
Total: $3.14
This evening, during my commute, I really started thinking about phoning in dinner. I mean really phoning it in. Well, not really--I'm not much for picking up the phone and ordering pizza or Chinese. That takes too much thought. No, I'm talking about hitting the drive-thru. I wanted bad food and I wanted it stat. No one would even be home to catch my binge as Husband is watching a movie for the second time just so his brother would go see it in the theater. I was debating over whose fries and burgers I wanted most and if there'd be room left over for a shake. I even opened my wallet at a stop light and thumbed through my available cash.
But in the end I steered my car towards home and cooked crap food. Just call this my week of box food. Tuesday was Stove Top and today is Hamburger Helper.What? It was on sale and I had a coupon.
If you're making Hamburger Helper (God forbid) and you're only following the directions on the box, you're missing out on a world on wonderful. You can't just eat it as is unless you're four. I mean, I've had four-year-olds tell me that Chef Boyardee is "Damn Good Stuff." I was babysitting at the time and probably should have reprimanded him but it was all I could do to get out of the room before laughing. What? He wasn't my kid. Point being: you can't trust a four-year-old's taste buds and if you're going to eat Hamburger Helper (or any of the Helper family) at least pretend to zazz it up. Also you don't want that white glove guy telling you what to do.
In the end, I'm pretty happy with the decision to skip the drive-thru. My craving for junk is satisfied and the cooking part was much more relaxing than driving to the drive-thru and waiting in line for the privilege to pay for "food." Also? This counts as part of the pantry/freezer project because I had everything on hand already.
This isn't so much a recipe as My Guide to Zazzy Helper.
Step 1:(I accidentally published right there. First time ever.) Get Helper. Wait until a sale/coupon combo. There is plenty of other cheaper crap you can buy in the meantime. What about the private label kinds? I don't know, but it can't get much worse, right?
Step 2: Cook your meat...or don't. This is the first and second-best place to take liberties with Mr. White Glove. You don't need a pound of meat, you don't have to use the meat they tell you to. Last time I used a mixture of cooked chicken and turkey for a chicken one. This time I used 1/4 pound hamburger and 4 or 5 slices of bacon. You can also use a mixture of ground meet and bulgur or other cooked grain. Or beans or tofu. Or veg you want to sautee like onions or peppers or mushrooms. Or skip this step all together.
Step 3: Mix in the noodles or rice and liquid and powder stuff. This is when I also make extra rice or noodles to stir in at the end. There is usually plenty of sauce/flavoring to support extra noodles or rice.
Step 4: Add in some more vegetables. Zazz it up! Priority number one for liberty taking. Sneak those vegetables past Mr. White Glove! Add anything you want sauteed with the meat (as I mentioned before). Add anything frozen or that you need boiled while you're cooking the noodles/rice. Add canned stuff or greens after the cooking is over.
Step 5: Eat it up!
Costs
Hamburger Helper was 75 cents.
Quarter pound of hamburger was 50 cents
Bacon was 60 cents
Onion was 20 cents
Milk was 48 cents
Broccoli was 33 cents
Tomatoes were 50 cents
Extra pasta was free (coupon)
Total $3.36. Way less than an extra value meal. With all the additions this could easily make 8 servings so 42 cents per serving.
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Breakfast: Peanut Butter on Toast 27 cents
Snack: Granola Bar 25 cents
Lunch: Orange Glazed Pork Chops $1.37
Snack: Yogurt with Blueberries and Banana 83 cents
Dinner: Zazz-burger Helper 42 cents
Total: $3.14
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Hello, Four-Eyes
As soon as I started this blog and squeezing my nickels tighter, I thought, "you know what, I should wear my glasses more often." Mostly because I was almost out of contacts and didn't want to go the optometrist to choose between A and B for a reaffirmation that my prescription is ok. I'm really bad at making up my mind between all those choices. Better A or better B is hard enough--but then sometimes they throw C in the mix, too.
I'd also had some washed hippie pangs of guilt about all the trash I threw away with contacts. The boxes, little plastic containers, solution plastic jugs and the plastic around the squeeze cap and the boxes they come in. And then the solution always comes with a new plastic case. And sometimes I'd flush my contacts down the toilet--what if I choked a baby fish?
In the end it was a huge adjustment for my eyes. It hurt so much that I had at least one aborted attempt at switching over to glasses. The first few days--or a week even--it hurt to not have those thin parabolas of plastic covering my eyes. I started not wearing my contacts over the holidays, when I had more time off and less time being forced to stare at a computer screen. It took about a full week or maybe more to get over the burning and watering eyes. At first I thought that I'd ruined my eyes permanently. And then there were the times that my vision blurred or I could see better without my glasses. That was weird. Just don't make me chop an onion or mince garlic, I no longer have my eye protection to keep the tears at bay.
Thankfully, everything's fine now and I'm rocking my smart-girl disguise. I won't stay away from contacts forever and I do need to go get my eyes checked. But I'll probably put it off a little while longer while I save up some money. Maybe "smart-girl" isn't a disguise after all...
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Breakfast: Tortilla, Peanut Butter & Banana 32 cents
Lunch: Einstein's Soup I'm pretty sure that this is the most inexpensive lunch you can get within walking distance of my office. You get a bagel with it so it's pretty filling. Our refrigerator and microwave were out of commission today. About $3.25
Dinner: Orange Glazed Pork Chops. $1.37
Total: $4.94
I'd also had some washed hippie pangs of guilt about all the trash I threw away with contacts. The boxes, little plastic containers, solution plastic jugs and the plastic around the squeeze cap and the boxes they come in. And then the solution always comes with a new plastic case. And sometimes I'd flush my contacts down the toilet--what if I choked a baby fish?
In the end it was a huge adjustment for my eyes. It hurt so much that I had at least one aborted attempt at switching over to glasses. The first few days--or a week even--it hurt to not have those thin parabolas of plastic covering my eyes. I started not wearing my contacts over the holidays, when I had more time off and less time being forced to stare at a computer screen. It took about a full week or maybe more to get over the burning and watering eyes. At first I thought that I'd ruined my eyes permanently. And then there were the times that my vision blurred or I could see better without my glasses. That was weird. Just don't make me chop an onion or mince garlic, I no longer have my eye protection to keep the tears at bay.
Thankfully, everything's fine now and I'm rocking my smart-girl disguise. I won't stay away from contacts forever and I do need to go get my eyes checked. But I'll probably put it off a little while longer while I save up some money. Maybe "smart-girl" isn't a disguise after all...
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Breakfast: Tortilla, Peanut Butter & Banana 32 cents
Lunch: Einstein's Soup I'm pretty sure that this is the most inexpensive lunch you can get within walking distance of my office. You get a bagel with it so it's pretty filling. Our refrigerator and microwave were out of commission today. About $3.25
Dinner: Orange Glazed Pork Chops. $1.37
Total: $4.94
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Stove Top Stuffing
I found the recipe years ago, back when I was in college. I'm not completely sure why I was looking at Stove Top Stuffing boxes. I never remember eating Stove Top as a kid and it's not the kind of thing that you're drawn to, you know. I don't think you wander the grocery store aisles and are suddenly stopped dead in your tracks by a row of gleaming red boxes calling out "Chicken!" "Pork!" "Turkey!" "Cornbread!" And can you ever photograph stuffing so it looks appealing? Also? I've never cooked it on the stove-top.
So anyway, I was looking at a box of "Pork!" Stove Top one day almost 10 years ago and found this little recipe. It's a surprisingly tasty way to zazz up some pork chops. I made it for my college roommates. Then I made it for my parents. It made its way into the "Recipes We Have Tried and Enjoyed Compiled with Love by Mom" cookbook my mom made for me and Brother. And now, I've made it for Husband "What are you doing with that? Why are you mixing THAT with THAT? What IS that?...Hmm, this tastes pretty good." And it was all part of my pantry/freezer clean-out.
Orange-Glazed Pork Chops
1 package stuffing mix for pork 77 cents Thanksgiving is a good time to find this cheap.
1 11 oz can mandarin oranges, drained and chopped $1.97
1/4 cup butter, cut up 28 cents
4 pork chops, 1/2 inch thick $3.20
1/3 cup orange marmalade 42 cents
1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard like 19 cents, maybe?
Mix stuffing mix, 1 1/2 cups hot water, oranges, butter until moistened; set aside.
Spoon stuffing into a 12x8 baking dish. Top with chops (My chops were very thick so I had to de-bone them and halve them. They were beautiful and any self-respecting red-blooded American would have thrown them on the grill or something else that sounds carnivorous. Just call me a commie.)
Mix marmalade and mustard; spread on chops. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes or until chops are cooked through.
Total: $6.38 This was a meat heavy dinner for us--something like I would have had as a kid when dinner wasn't dinner unless it was a hunk of meat and some potatoes. Something green? If you must, but we preferred corn.
This was about 5 servings, especially because I cut the (now four) chops into smaller pieces. So total per serving was $1.37.
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What I ate today:
Breakfast I had a work breakfast. You want to know something weird. I've never expensed a work breakfast before. I've never thought to do so until today...maybe I will but with coffee it cost $5.75 If I made it at home it would have cost $1.26.
Lunch Grilled turkey & cheese and chicken broth (Just so you know, I count chicken broth as free because I make it from leftovers that are costed out already--like chicken bones and leek tops. Also the cheese was free because sometimes I sign up to get free stuff from the webs. Downside, Chase is adamant that I need a new credit card.) 43 cents
Snack: Lep Cookie free from Mom for Christmas (They've been in the fridge and are neither stale nor moldy.)
Dinner In-Laws are taking us out to eat for Husband's birthday, which happens to be today. Woot, 1/11/11!
Total: $6.18
So anyway, I was looking at a box of "Pork!" Stove Top one day almost 10 years ago and found this little recipe. It's a surprisingly tasty way to zazz up some pork chops. I made it for my college roommates. Then I made it for my parents. It made its way into the "Recipes We Have Tried and Enjoyed Compiled with Love by Mom" cookbook my mom made for me and Brother. And now, I've made it for Husband "What are you doing with that? Why are you mixing THAT with THAT? What IS that?...Hmm, this tastes pretty good." And it was all part of my pantry/freezer clean-out.
Orange-Glazed Pork Chops
1 package stuffing mix for pork 77 cents Thanksgiving is a good time to find this cheap.
1 11 oz can mandarin oranges, drained and chopped $1.97
1/4 cup butter, cut up 28 cents
4 pork chops, 1/2 inch thick $3.20
1/3 cup orange marmalade 42 cents
1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard like 19 cents, maybe?
Mix stuffing mix, 1 1/2 cups hot water, oranges, butter until moistened; set aside.
Spoon stuffing into a 12x8 baking dish. Top with chops (My chops were very thick so I had to de-bone them and halve them. They were beautiful and any self-respecting red-blooded American would have thrown them on the grill or something else that sounds carnivorous. Just call me a commie.)
Mix marmalade and mustard; spread on chops. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes or until chops are cooked through.
Total: $6.38 This was a meat heavy dinner for us--something like I would have had as a kid when dinner wasn't dinner unless it was a hunk of meat and some potatoes. Something green? If you must, but we preferred corn.
This was about 5 servings, especially because I cut the (now four) chops into smaller pieces. So total per serving was $1.37.
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What I ate today:
Breakfast I had a work breakfast. You want to know something weird. I've never expensed a work breakfast before. I've never thought to do so until today...maybe I will but with coffee it cost $5.75 If I made it at home it would have cost $1.26.
Lunch Grilled turkey & cheese and chicken broth (Just so you know, I count chicken broth as free because I make it from leftovers that are costed out already--like chicken bones and leek tops. Also the cheese was free because sometimes I sign up to get free stuff from the webs. Downside, Chase is adamant that I need a new credit card.) 43 cents
Snack: Lep Cookie free from Mom for Christmas (They've been in the fridge and are neither stale nor moldy.)
Dinner In-Laws are taking us out to eat for Husband's birthday, which happens to be today. Woot, 1/11/11!
Total: $6.18
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